Freedom Salute for NH Guard unit is Saturday in Concord

December 03. 2013 7:42PMCONCORD — A Freedom Salute ceremony for the 169th Medevac Detachment, New Hampshire Army National Guard, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Army Aviation Support Facility on Regional Drive.

The detachment will be honored for its 2012-2013 deployment to Afghanistan as part of joint, four-state medical evacuation unit known as “Jigsaw,” which completed 471 life-saving missions and transported 527 wounded to higher levels of care. The Guardsmen are from New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri.

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